“Help for Heroes” circa 1915 – charitable collections carry on today as they did then only with a different name. The other day in Bridgnorth High Street, I threw some loose change into a bucket, one of many carried by a group of around twenty bikers collecting for the current […]
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I Remember The Star & Garter
The Star and Garter No one in their right mind today, would consider demolishing this wonderful piece of 19th century enterprise built at the end of the European War in (1815) and more lavishly re-built in 1837. But that’s exactly what a group of wealthy Wulfrunians did with the Corporations […]
Read moreHow The Mighty Have Fallen
In the Victorian period this area along the Penn Road was were the wealthy people of the town built their grand houses, and today very few now survive in their original design. Muchall Grove is one of the many now existing only as care homes. and even in this guise […]
Read moreA Strange Tale of The Old Holly Bush
This well known roadside inn at Penn which was included in the sale of a portion of the Lloyd estate 24th & 25th September 1901, is connected with a very curious story bearing its past history. It is one of the oldest licensed houses in the county, and the present […]
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